Wipe

[Rex A. Butcher]

What ho one and all,

Just read about an interesting program in MicroMart, called Wipe, and thought I would give it a bash. Taken an image of my OS last week and did a SysRestore before installing, so not concerned.

Run wipe and it currently tells me that there are 1,736,648,777 bytes of junk that can be removed! But of greater concern is that the program apparently is finding 196 installed programs, which include (and this is not an exhaustive list) Alexa Toolbar,Ask Toolbar, AVG Safeguard TB, AdFender, Adobe Reader, Chrome 27 - 44, Comodo Dragon 31 - 43, Firefox 21 - 40, Opera 12 - 31, Torch 29 - 42, Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10, Yahoo Toolbar, Yahoo Messanger, Yandex Browser 1 - 15.6, etc.

Now i have never installed (knowingly) any of these, and I cannot find them in the Programs folder or anywhere else. I have run Agent Ransack and still zilch; likewise with the reg. So where is Wipe getting this information from?

FYI, I'm running XP Pro.

Thanks

Rex

[Train]

Sounds like a garbage program to me. And if you got it from CNET, I bet they added some other junk.

Uninstall it and run mbam and clean up the mess.

[fink]

What he said.

If you let it delete 1,736,648,777 bytes of "junk" you'll very likely end up regretting it.

[Rex A. Butcher]

It probably is rubbish but I got it from the program web site (https://privacyroot.com/software/www/en/wipe.php)

But nevertheless, where would it be getting all this information from? Programs that I do not have or no longer have; Adobe Reader, long gone (as far as I know.) I have in the past accidentally installed Ask and then removed both it and the program it came with. So where is that information now stored?

[fink]

Often when you install a program then uninstall it traces are left in the registry and sometimes folders/files on the hard drive. It's not hard to search for them but they are usually benign and not worth worrying about.

But if that program is seeing programs that you've never installed then it sounds like a scam.

[Train]

Often when you install a program then uninstall it traces are left in the registry and sometimes folders/files on the hard drive. It's not hard to search for them but they are usually benign and not worth worrying about.

But if that program is seeing programs that you've never installed then it sounds like a scam.

Yes indeed, I agree.

[Midknyte]

It's a scam for sure.
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